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R. K. LEE.

BROILBR,

Patented Sept. 8, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

RUFUS K. LE, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO IIIMSELF AND GER'ITRUDE L. MARTIN, OF SAME PLACE..

BROILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 567,400, dated Septemberl 8, 1896.

Application filed June 29, 1896.

To @ZZ whom t mag/concern:

Be it known that I, RUFUS K. LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Broilers, of which the following is a specification.

Broilers as usually employed consist of two open-work wire frames with handles, the same being connected by rings,.and thus adapted to be held together while the meat or other article of food between them is being broiled over the fire.

In the broiling operation the smell or smoke from the broiling usually escapes into the room and is unpleasant; and the object of my invention is to provide the broiler with a cover that shall tend to divert downward the smell and smoke and cause the same to pass under the stove-lids and up the chimney and in that manner escape, so that the same will not be objectionable.

In carrying out my invention I employ in connection with the usual broiling device a cover of corrugated sheet metal, connected at one end to the broiler, and having a handle preferably in line with the handles of the broiler, which handle s secured by the ring employed for connecting together the handles of the broiler, and this cover is adapted to lie fiat upon either surface of the broiler as the same is turned over in broiling `the opposite sides of the article of food. I prefer to stiffen the edge of the corrugated metal plate or cover by aw'ire rolled edge, the wire in which may be projected to form the handle, or the handle may be a separate piece.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view representing my improvement as applied to a broiler. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section in larger size.

The broiler, as usual, comprises the openwork wire frames a a', having handles b b', with ring-connectors c, and a slip-ring c' around the handles, and as the same is of usual construction no further description is necessary. The plate or cover of corrugated sheet metal is represented at d, and the same is preferably slightly larger than the openwork frames of the broiler, and I have shown Serial Nm 597,322. (No model.)

and prefer to make the corrugations run lengthwise. or wavy form in cross-section. I have shown and prefer to employ a wire rolled edge d to said plate, the same extending all around the edges of the` plate, except at the place where said wire projects to form the handle e. This wire rolled edge stiens the cover-plate, especially in a transverse direction, and also strengthens the edge where saidplate is perforated for the connecting-rings f or other equivalent devices. These rings f may be large enoughto pass around the two back wires of the broiler-frames a a', as well as the back wire of the cover-plate d, because the turning action will thereby be facilitated when it is necessary to turn the broiler over, and in so doing to swing the cover el from one side of the broiler to the other, this being accomplished by sliding the ring c' along the handles and grasping the handle e of the cover and turning the same and the cover around to the other side and sliding the ring c' over said handle. The rings f are preferably employed when the cover-plate is made and sold as part of a new broiler, but where the cover-plates are connected upon old broilers I prefer to use swivel snap-hooks, or equivalent means, to removably connect the cover-plate to one of the wire frames, the same being long enough to allow for the turning of the cover-plate d to either side of the frames. Instead of the handle ebeing a continuation .of the wire of the rolled edge of the coverplate, the same maybe a separate piece eX- tending from the bottom of two corrugations These corrugations may be of V in the cover and connected in any desired A manner, as shown by dotted lines.

In use the broiler is usually at or near the level of the top of the stove, and the corrugated cover-plate confines the smoke and smell from the broiling operation, and the corrugations act as flues along which the smoke and smell pass to the ends of the plate and away freely, and are drawn down with the products of combustion across through the stove and up the chimney, and so escape.

I claim as my invention-u l. The combination with a broiler comprising two open wire frames and their handles and ring connections and between which the IOO material to be broiled is placed, of a coverplate of corrugated sheet metal above and adjacent to the outer surface of one wire frame, a handle for said corrugated plate and connections therefrom to thebroiler-frame whereby the smoke and smell of cooking are arrested, confined and pass freely from the ends of the corrugations, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination with a broiler compris` ing two open wire frames and handles and connections, of a cover-plate of corrugated sheet metal, a handle therefor and connections therefrom t0 the broiler-frames whereby said cover is adapted to be swung over so as to cover either side of the broiler, substantially as specified.

RUFUS K. LEE. fitnesses-z GEO. T. PINCKNEY, S. T. HAVILAND. 

